人教版高中英语教案Unit4Wildlifeprotection

名师整理，助你成功

英语必修二第四单元

Unit 4 Wildlife protection

The topic of this unit is wild life protection，which is very important everywhere. It is

concerned with the importance of wildlife protection and ways to protect wild plants and

animals. It introduces some of the animals to students that are in danger which helps them

know the importance of protecting wild animals and plants on the earth.

Daisy `s story shows the problems of wildlife protection in three parts of the world:

Tibet, Africa and the Brazilian rain forest. It also shows us an organization (WWW) which

works all over the world for the wildlife protection.

Vocabulary: wild wildlife, protection, decrease, loss, reserve, hunt, zone, carpet,

respond, distant, fur, relief, laughter, mercy, certain, importance, rub, mosquito, insert,

contain, powerful, affect, attention, succeed, secure, income, employ, harm, bite, inspect,

incident, dust, fierce, ending, die out, in peace, in danger, in relief, burst into laughter,

protect… from…, pay attention to, come into being, according to, so that

Functions:

I`m going to……

I feel like doing……

I would rather not…….. I intend / mean / plan to…..

I would like to ……

I will do ………I am ready to …

Apologies:

I am so sorry that …..

I am afraid that……

Thank you very much but…..

It is a shame that ……It was very nice of you but ……

Grammar: the present progressive passive voice

The first period: Warming up, Pre-reading, Reading and Comprehending

Ability aims: Develop the students` reading ability to enable them learn about the

knowledge of wildlife protection and talk about endangered species.

Important points: Get the students to read the passage How Daisy Learned to Help

名师整理，助你成功Wildlife and learn different reading skills.

Difficult points: Develop their reading ability and enable them to talk about wildlife

protection fluently.

Step 1 Warming up

Warm up the students` interest about wildlife protection by showing some pictures

and then answer some questions.

1). Can you name at least eight kinds of animals which live in your neighborhood?

What habits and characteristics do they have?

2). What problems are some wild animals in China facing?

3). What has China done to solve the problems?

4). How have things changed since China took action to protect wild animal?

5). Have you ever watched Tibet antelopes on TV? What problems are these animals

facing? What measures has our government taken to protect them?

Step 2 Reading

1. Read the text aloud to the tape for the main idea, and then fill in the table.

How Daisy Learned to help Wildlife

The text is made up of 4 paragraphs and can be divided into 4 parts

Type of writing A narrative writing

Part 1 (para. 1) Daisy visited Tibet where antelopes have been over-hunted.

Part 2 (para. 2) Daisy came to Zimbabwe where animals were being killed.

Part 3 (para.3) Daisy arrived in a forest which needs to be protected.

Part 4 (para.4) Daisy returned home / earning wildlife.

2. Scan the text for detailed information to do the following questions. 1). Paragraph 1 suggests that _____.

A. the number of the antelopes in Tibet is getting smaller now.

B. Daisy would like to see the antelopes very much. C. the antelopes have all been killed for the wool and none was left

D. the antelopes have moved from Tibet to some other places

2). Paragraph 2 suggests that _____. A. farmers in Zimbabwe once made a living by hunting

B. farmers are not satisfied with the government

C. the living conditions of elephants in Zimbabwe have been improved D. animals in Zimbabwe find it interesting to take photos with tourists

名师整理，助你成功3). Which of the following is not true according to the passage?

A. Daisy know little about wildlife protection before the visit

B. the endangered animals will disappear in the near future

C. the WWF is an organization whose duty is to protect wildlife

D. animals are being threatened in different ways

4). Which is the most probable reason why the monkey in the forest are dying out?

A. there are too many tourists

B. they are being killed or hunted

C. their habitats are being destroyed

D. there is no enough food for them

5). From the end of the story we can conclude that _____.

A. the WWF will help Daisy to make the powerful drug

B. the WWF has done little to protect wildlife

C. people will stop killing animals with the help of the WWF

D. Daisy will continue to help protect wildlife by working with the WWF

3. Read it carefully for the detailed information and then fill in the form.

What did Daisy see where she was?

In Tibet in China Zimbabwe In thick rain forest

4.根据课文内容填空

Character Means of transport Aim

Daisy Flying carpet To see some endangered wildlife.

Daisy’s Journey

Animals Places situations

An antelope Tibet They are being killed for their soft fur.

An elephant Zimbabwe They used to be an endangered species because of